Manhattan Bridge

SPEED RACER

Tour the city’s bridges in a hurry

Report From Chinatown

Last Friday, a long line waited for the National Guard to arrive and distribute food and other disaster relief. (Click on any image to enlarge.) Meanwhile, trucks -- some bound for Chinatown -- are loaded at the 69th Armory on lower Lexington Avenue. Friday at 4pm Chinatown was a mess. A long li ... More >>

Mass Transit Update: Here's What's (And What's Not) Running in New York City Today

It's Day Three of Sandy's aftermath and, needless to say, New York is still swamped with flooding, power outages, displaced residents and, most importantly for commuters, public transportation shutdowns. We are told that it will take a few days for the City to be up and running like her old, pr ... More >>

New York's Beijing BBQ Carts Branch Out in a Big Way

An assortment of brochettes from this innovative Chinatown barbecue cart is Dish #22 in our countdown. Welcome to 100 Dishes to Eat Now, the tasty countdown leading up to our "Best of 2012" issue. Tune in each day (weekends too!) for a new dish from the Fork in the Road team. It was only five year ... More >>

Seeing Space Shuttle Enterprise From the Q Train: A Close Encounter of the Manhattan Bridge Kind

Knowing the Space Shuttle Enterprise was going to be arriving today in New York City, I was extremely pissed off to realize I had a doctor's appointment which would preclude me from actively viewing it, and I'd most likely be underground in the subway when it flew over the Hudson, guaranteeing I wou ... More >>

Where Was I Eating? Kuai An (Sorta, But Not Really)

Lauren Shockey​So this week's Where Am I Eating? sort of has a winner. I was eating at what was formerly known as Kuai An, a tasty hand-pulled noodle joint on Forsyth Street. However, the restaurant is no longer called Kuai An, and, in fact, has gone through many, many name changes in the pa ... More >>

Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Williamsburg Bridges All Messed Up This Weekend

​It's been a tough moment for people trying to get places in New York. This week we had the double whammy of the President's visit plus the Rockefeller Christmas tree lighting, and last weekend a lot of the trains were, for lack of a better word, fucked (especially the L). For those of you w ... More >>

He Nan Flavor: Noodle on Down

The Lower East Side greets its first Henan restaurant

Live: The Creators Project Brings Florence, Justice, And Lots Of Art To DUMBO

Benjamin Lozovsky​The Creators Project October 15-16 Better than: A representative of the Intel Corporation laboriously explaining to me the superiority of their microprocessors. If you're suspicious that The Creators Project is all just a way for the Vice Empire to class up its image beyo ... More >>

Manhattan Bridge Will Star in a Far-Out Light Show Next Week

A preview: Trippy. But why?

ZOOM IN

Photographers swarm DUMBO

Dear Single Women of NYC: It's Not Them, It's You.

The plight of the single lady

The Luckyrice Festival Returns; Tickets On Sale Tomorrow

tucker_zoe/Flickr​Just in time for Chinese New Year (which begins tomorrow), the Luckyrice Festival has announced it will return for a second year, from May 2-8.

LuckyRice to Return to New York, Expand Beyond

L.A. and San Francisco about to get lucky, too.​LuckyRice, the Asian food festival that debuted in New York this year, has plans to return next year and will also expand to San Francisco and Los Angeles. Per Crain's, the five-day Asian food fest will run from May 4 to 8, 2011.

Week In Review: The Love and the Wizardry

We are all Jay-Z's children,. Photo by Jori Klein.​In the week we told you why you can't hate Kanye West and love My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy at the same time, we made similarly bold claims about Girl Talk--ten worst moments on that record, right here--and the Beatles, who along with a c ... More >>

JUST LIKE HONEY

A choreographer takes advantage of the heat wave

Banh Mi Saigon's New Digs on Grand Street

​A new electronic ordering system (eek!) displays your order. My sandwich actually turns out to look much better than this picture. News that Banh Mi Saigon -- one of the city's first purveyors of Vietnamese baguette-borne sandwiches, and long the best - was moving to a new location caused ir ... More >>

Tuli Kupferberg: Model Village Citizen, 1923-2010

​Most afternoons in the 1970s, you could find Tuli Kupferberg, the poet and folksinger who died yesterday at 86, peddling his penny poems along Sixth Avenue. He would hang out at the corner of West 8th Street outside of the old Nathan's. The poems were always little gems of anarchist menace, a ... More >>

AFRICAN PRIDE

The Roots host a World Cup wrap party

Video and Tell: The Destruction of Downtown Brooklyn's McDonald's

Click to enlarge.Before and after Angry Crane's reign of terror. ​So, McDonald's: The Fast Food Restaurant that's basically terrible for the universe. They had a location in downtown Brooklyn that you could reach by simply going over the Manhattan Bridge and taking a left (or if you're driving ... More >>

Play 'I.D. That Organ' in Spicy and Tingly Lamb Face Salad

​Oh, hello! What is that piece of flesh looking up at me? Xi'an Famous Foods' "Spicy and Tingly Lamb Face Salad" might be the most perfect summer meal: shredded scallions, green chiles, sprouts, and a catalog of variety meats from the facial area, immersed in a gritty red sauce with lots of a ... More >>

FREEZE FRAME

Lou Reed steps up to co-curate the NY Photo Festival

Lucky Rice Festival's Night Market: Street Food and Celebrity Chefs Under the Manhattan Bridge

Keith WagstaffFeelin' lucky?​Last Friday, the underpass under the Manhattan Bridge was swarming with hungry people at the Lucky Rice Festival's Night Market. Stands from Momofuku Milk Bar, An Choi, Umi Nom, and 23 others were handing out free samples as well as selling goodies on the side. Cel ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain Smiles Down at Us from Heaven, and Delicious Noodles Appear at Xi'an Famous Food in Manhattan's Chinatown

​Pictures of the offerings in the window make ordering easy at Xi'an Famous Foods. The advent of northern Chinese fare in Manhattan's Chinatown has been a long-awaited event. First there was a cart at the corner of Forsyth and Division streets dispensing lamb kebabs dusted with a cumin-laced ... More >>

TransAlt Celebrates New DUMBO Bike Path Where Member Cracked Up

​In 2005 Transportation Alternatives' Noah Budnick hit a pothole on Sands Street in DUMBO and cracked up badly. So he and the rest of TransAlt are especially happy to see the Sands Street bike path completed, affording bikers coming on and off the Manhattan Bridge, or just tooling around the n ... More >>

Cartoon Network DUMBO Promo Offers "Real People," Shredding

Looks like the Cartoon Network is rebranding itself: Now, what it's all about is: DUMBO! (At least that looks like it, with the Manhattan Bridge in the background.) Xtreme sports! Fire-eaters! REAL people! Balloons! and oh yeah, cartoons. In this promo, Andrew WK (was Poochie unavailable?) appears ... More >>

Revisiting the Original Grand Sichuan

   A dozen years back, the original Grand Sichuan on Canal Street opened just across from the triumphal entrance to the Manhattan Bridge. It was first out of the gate, gainsaying the Szechuan Empires, Szechwan Gardens, and all the other pallid evocations of Sichuan cuis ... More >>

Readers Remember the Blackout

The Cross-Borough Bike Lane Revolution

Who's Sabotaging Bikers on the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges?

Saturday

ART ATTACK

Get lost in Judith Supine’s maze

Family Meal: A Late Night Affair with Some Organ Meat

Mod Squad

The rise of scooter clubs and scooter politics

Strike : More Room for Cars, But Bike Pools Still On

Dark Rides

Two agile revivals make fresh comedy out of creepy menace

Bush Gets a Chinatown 'Cheer' and Banner

The Game of the Prose

Grossman's vertiginous biblio-quest thriller gets medieval on your video-game-playin' ass

Dance

Close-Up on DUMBO, Brooklyn

Swish Swish

True Happiness on the Lower East Side

Close-up on Chinatown

Are You OK?

Trying to Get the Word Out From the Surreal City in Disaster

Power Mad

The Anti-Pollution Fight Heats Up in Williamsburg

Project Girls

Five Veterans of the City’s Public Housing Tell Their Tales

NY Mirror

Loft in former spice warehouse

Out of the Garret

A new study examines the real economic life of artists

How To Jump Off a Bridge

JUMP

Under Cover of Night, Local Daredevils Bungee off City Bridges